Fight by Fight: Andrew Golota

[DrDuke]

Ok, guys, here's my turn to follow Fight by Fight trend and now it's time for the one and only Andrew Golota.



Stay tuned, as I'm starting to overview his back-and-forth exciting career.

[oogiebe]

=total frustration

[DrDuke]

Golota's amateur career was an impressive record of 111 wins and 10 loses. Andrew won Bronze at the 1988 Olympics. His entire Olympic record looks like this:

1st round bye
Defeated Svilen Rusinov (Bulgaria) 5-0
Defeated Harold Obunga (Kenya) 5-0

Lost to Baik Hyun-Man (South Korea) RSC 2,
where he was outboxed pretty clearly and stopped on cuts.



After completing his amateur career Golota moved to Chicago, USA, where he started pro-career. His pro-career looks like that:

1st fight
Debuting Roosevelt Shuler is TKOed in 3

2nd fight
Debuting Joe Jones is stopped in the 1st

3rd fight
0 5 0 Charles Presswood is KOed in the 1st

4th fight
12 12 3 Joey Christjohn is TKOed in the 1st

5th fight
2 3 2 Robert Smith is outpointed in 6

6th fight
3 26 0 James Holley is KOed in the 1st

7th fight
18 32 2 Aaron Brown is TKOed in the 3rd

8th fight
31 16 1 Eddie Taylor is TKOed in the 1st

9th fight
6 21 2 Andre Crowder is TKOed in the 1st

10th fight
Andrew finally got filmed, he punished 46 25 1 Bobby Crabtree for violating the rule of "Protect yourself at all times", eventually TKOing him in the 2nd



11th fight
14 10 2 Kevin P Porter is KOed in 3

12th fight
9 20 0 Carlton West was KOed in 2



13th fight
6 6 2 Marion Wilson, a tough journeyman, he got outpointed after 8 rounds

14th fight
13 3 0 Andre Smith was KOed in the 1st



15th fight
15 7 0 Calvin Jones is TKOed in 2



16th fight
21 6 1 Donnell Wingfield is TKOed in the opener



17th fight
8 11 0 Larry Davis is kayoed in the 1st

18th fight
30 3 2 Terry Davis is TKOed in the 1st



19th fight
21 13 1 Jesse Shelby is TKOed in 2

20th fight
38 17 1 Jeff Lampkin retired on stool after the opener



21st fight
13 1 1 Darren Hayden showed guts, but retired after the 7th ending a solid beatdown



22nd fight
4 10 0 Dwayne Hall is TKOed in 1

23rd fight
7 14 3 Marion Wilson is outpointed again, now in a 10-rounder

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24th fight
15 1 0 Samson Po'uha is TKOed in 5, where Golota showed his first notable foul, when he tried to bite Po'uha after being troubled



25th fight
17 8 0 West Turner is TKOed in the 1st after eating a brutal combo



26th fight
20 9 2 Jason Waller is TKOed in 2

27th fight
16 9 0 Charles Hostetter is TKOed in the 2nd



28th fight
24 1 0 Danell Nicholson is retired after 8, Golota's performance contains some diry stuff again



29th fight
38 1 0 Riddick Bowe loses to Golota, but thus wins, cause Golota gets DQed for low-blowing assault. A legendary fight



30th fight
39 1 0 Riddick Bowe loses to Golota again, but yet another time wins by DQ, well, you know that story



31st fight
31 1 0 Lennox Lewis gets Golota as a challenger for his belts and destroys him in the 1st goddamn round



32nd fight
19 3 1 Eli Dixon is unlucky enough to taste the comeback of Golota, he's KOed in 6



33rd fight
21 12 0 Jack Basting is TKOed in the 3rd



34th fight
16 5 0 Corey Sanders, a one, that not Corrie Sanders, is outpointed in a 10-rounder in a solid 90s' style scrap

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35th fight
46 7 0 Tim Witherspoon is decisioned by Golota after a 10-round bout



36th fight
26 17 0 Jesse Ferguson loses a 10-round match



37th fight
24 6 1 Quinn Navarre gives up in the 6th and sufferes a TKO loss



38th fight
30 0 0 Michael Grant nearly gets KOed early, but survives to a miraculous comeback in the 10th, where he knocks Golota down and makes him quit



39th fight
24 16 0 Marcus Rhode is TKOed in 3



40th fight
50 5 0 Orlin Norris loses a 10-round solid bout



41st fight
48 3 0 Mike Tyson breaks Golota's jaw. Mandibular. Andrew quits after the 2nd. But the bout was declared NC, cause Tyson was high



42nd fight
18 10 0 Brian Nix is TKOed in 7

43rd fight
32 13 1 Terrence Lewis is TKOed in 6

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44th fight
37 2 0 Chris Byrd retains his belt against Golota in a controversial draw, where Andrew enormously outworked Byrd



45th fight
40 5 1 John Ruiz is put on his butt twice, but manages to spoil the second half of the fight with his ugly clinching and gets a robbery UD win instead of a deserved DQ, "defends" his belt



46th fight
31 2 0 Lamon Brewster brutally defends his belt by TKOing Andrew right in the 1st



47th fight
21 13 1 Jeremy Bates is TKOed in 2



48th fight
34 5 1 Kevin McBride is TKOed in 6



49th fight
19 1 0 Mike Mollo is outpointed in a 12-rounder, where Golota showed guts and gought with a badly swollen eye



50th fight
25 4 4 Ray Austin wins after the 1st, as Golota withdrew with an injury



51th fight
38 1 0 Tomasz Adamek TKOed Golota in 5



52th fight
43 7 0 Przemyslaw Saleta KOs Golota in 6



After that Andrew's career was officially over.

On Oct 25, 2014 Golota performed in a some kind of an exhibition bout against a former rival Danell Nicholson to make a farewell fight

[Caractacus]

Hey The Andrew Golota fight chronolgy thread has been already done about this time last year.
I will bump it up to compare notes.

[DrDuke]

Hey The Andrew Golota fight chronolgy thread has been already done about this time last year.
I will bump it up to compare notes.

Really? At least you've said right after I'm finished, not to frustrate me in the process of making.

[HomicideHenry]

I'm loving the enthusiasm DrDuke

[Onetimeonly]

I don't remember the spoon fight at all.

[DrDuke]

I don't remember the spoon fight at all.

Golota outboxed him in a one-sided fashion.

[HomicideHenry]

BTW, who knew Golota really didn't want to be a boxer. He wanted to be a truck driver. Reminds me of JD Chapman.